The purpose and effect of the rule amendment is to add the definitions of disability types to align with statute, allow students who are eligible for a course substitution in a skill area to be waived from taking the college preparatory coursework in the respective skill area so that such students will not be prevented from continuing their education, and clarify when and to whom colleges should submit the report of the number of granted substitutions by type of disability, the substitutions provided, the substitutions identified as available for each documented disability and the number of requests for substitutions which were denied.